Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

@michcia well, what I can say for sure is your 5 year old cousin cannot exercise software freedom with respect to Linux

If we want to talk about software being free in a recipient-independent way, we'd need to somehow aggregate over all recipients, which requires a judgement call

You could say today it's "an average programmer", but in an ideal world it'd be "every adult" or even "every child past primary school", like we expect for reading natural language

I just realized vibecoded software is incompatible with the Free Software Definition, specifically with Freedom 1 - the freedom to study how the program works.

If someone pushes LLM-generated code that they don't understand (often didn't even read), then how is anyone else supposed to understand it? And if you can't understand it, you're deprived of your freedom to study it.

@jmaris
would that mean declaring it a criminal organization and making membership in it illegal?

Does German law allow arresting an elected representative (Bundestag or Landtag member) when found to be part of such organization, or would that require the legislative body to lift the immunity?

@nikitonsky I think the article may be onto something, but I don't like its use of the term "building".

> Open source was never just about writing code. [...] it centers around building. Building a library, building relationships with likeminded people, building understanding.

What's "building a library" if not writing code? Unless it's meant as a non-technical term, more like "building a collection of objects I cherish"...

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@nikitonsky
To me building a community and building an understanding seem like they have little in common with building a library.

But also, maybe I just don't understand the term.

Is it meant the same way LLM boosters claim LLMs let them "build" much faster?
Or is it a different type of building?

2/2

github down?

@p
it's no LinkedIn either... does that mean you failed at your stated goal?
@phnt @lss @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun

@cjd
@phnt @lss @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
lowkey reminds me of a quote from a Polish 19th century theater comedy:

"Hej! Gerwazy! daj gwintówkę!
niech strącę tę makówkę!"

which means

"Hey! Jarvis! gimme the rifle!
I will pop that poppyhead!"

Ofc in the text where it comes from, it has nothing to do with removing scumbags from power, and everything to do with a neighbourly revenge, which the whole play makes fun of.

But since this is a hellthread anyway...

@cjd
@Suzu@detroitriotcity.com @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @multiversal_gangstalker@poa.st @mrsaturday @sun @rees
"Politicians are trying to make us busy fighting other ethnicities so that we don't unite to fight them. Therefore, I will fight other ethnicities, to foil the politicians' plan"

@cjd
France shows its superior foresight again
@phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun

@p
@phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
Yeah, but this stuff takes a decade to get from initial design to mass production. I think long term, Europe can do without the US, but the transition could be rough.

@p @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
tariffs, abandonment vs Russia (we're working on fixing this one), causing a war in middle east, cutting off golden parts for licensed production of US weapons, cutting off spare parts for weapons we purchased from US, embargo on space launches, embargo on integrated circuits, blockading our ports...

it's quite a wide range

@cjd @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
well, at least one of those acts as if he wants to replace humanity...

@cjd @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
like Thiel?

@p @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
It worked in 1989?

@cjd
Oh, last time I didn't scroll far enough to see that there's a protocol proposal. Will give it a read later on.

@phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun

@p @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
Yeah, but there's only so far it can go, before US retaliates.

@p @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
Not every communication platform was part of PRISM, and at that time unencrypted http was pretty widespread, so https matterd against "Upstream" (beam splitters in the mysterious room with no door handles, router rootkits, etc).

Well until bots using residential proxies made everyone hide behind CloudFlare :blobfacepalm:

@sun @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday

The sovereign wants GDP, and I'm lucky enough that he can't yet generate GDP without keeping his subjects well fed and educated.

Unfortunately there are people who want to change that *gestures vaguely in the direction of the Silicon Valley*

@sun @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday
I'd rather be property of a local sovereign than of a global sovereign